Journal-bearing.



PATENTED OCT. 4, 1904.

A. U. STILES. JOURNAL BEARING. APPLICATION FILED DEO.12, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

No. 771,506. Patented October 4, 1904.

UNITE STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ALBERT STILES, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE A. C. STILES METAL COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A COR- PORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

JOURNAL-BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,506, dated October 4, 1904.

. Application filed December 12, 1903. Serial No. 184,898. (No model.)

To all whom it y 0071067"! not altered. If desired, a web 8 may be ar- Be it known that I, ALBERT C. STILES, of ranged in the groove 3, so as to divide it lon- New Haven, in the county of New Haven gitudinally. Lubricating material is applied O and State of Connecticut, have invented a new to the bearing through the groove 3 and 5 and useful Journal-Bearing; and I do hereby passes through either of the passagesl: 5 into declare the following, when taken in eonnecthe channels 6 7. It is only necessary, howtion Withthe accompanying drawings and the ever, that one of the channels be filled with figures of reference marked thereon, to be a lubricating material, and the one depends full, clear, and exact description of the same, upon the direction in which the journal is to 10 and which said drawings constitute part of turn, as lubricating material will be carried this specification, and represent, infrom one of the channels over the remaining Figure 1, an inside view of a journal-bear surface of the bearing. If the journal is to ing constructed in accordance with my invenbe lubricated through the channel 6, the pastion; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view sages 5 and channel 7 may be filled with tal- 5 thereof. low, and so that if the lubricating material This invention relates to an improvement in the channel 6 becomes exhausted the heatin journal-bearings, and While particularly ing of the journal due to the lack of lubriintended for locomotive-bearings is applicaeating material will melt the tallow in the 5 ble for various other purposes where a bearchannel 7 and temporarily supply lubrication. 2O ing necessary to be lubricated is required. In journals which are to be used largely in In the general construction of journal-bearboth directions both channels may be filled ings the passages for oil extend through the with lubricating-oil. By distributing the oil crown of the bearing, and consequently but a to the sides of the bearing the entire surface 7 small portion of the surface of the journal is of the bearing is more perfectly lubricated 5 lubricated, and, furthermore, the opening for and the crown of the bearing left intact, so the passage of oil through the crown of the that more perfect wear is assured. Thus the bearing weakens the bearing at its point of life of the journal is materially lengthened. greatest wear. The grooves, passages, and channels are read- The object of this invention is to provide a ily formed in casting, so that the cost of manu- 3 bearing which maybe lubricated throughout facture is not increased.

substantially its entire surface and by which Having fully described my invention, what the lubricating material will be equally dis- I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters tributed; and the invention consists in the Patent, is* construction as hereinafter described,and par- 1. A ournal-bearing having acentral longi- 3 5 ticularly recited in the claims. tudinal groove in its outer face, an open lon- As herein shown, the bearing 2 is of subgitudinal channel in the inner face at one side stantially usual form and at the crown is of the longitudinal center thereof, and pasformed with a longitudinal groove 3, from sages connecting said groove and channel, 5 which passages 4 and 5, more or less in numsubstantially as described.

4 her, lead transversely to longitudinal chan- 2. A journal-bearing havingacentral longinels 6 and 7, formed in the inner face of the tudinal groove in its upper face, open longibearing at points considerably removed from tudinal channels in its inner face on opposite the crown ofithe bearing. sides of the longitudinal center, and passages 9 The walls of the channels 6 7 are substanconnecting said grooves and channels, sub

45 tially parallel with the vertical axis of the stantially as described.

bearing and so that as the bearing becomes 3. Ajournal-bearinghavingacentrallongiworn the relative position of the channels is tudinal groove in its upper face, a web dividing' said groove longitudinally, there being specification in the presence of two subscriblongitudinal channels in the inner face of said ing' Witnesses. bearing on opposite sides of the longitudinal center thereof, and passages connecting said 5 grooves and channels, substantially as de- WVitnesses:

scribed. FANNY lVIE'rzGER,

In testimony whereof I have signed this HENRY C. BRETZFELDER.

ALBERT (J. STILES. 

